Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner

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Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner

edited by R.G.W. Anderson, J.A. Bennett, W.F. Ryan

Variorum, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

These studies in honour of Gerard Turner cover the history of old scientific instruments. Specific mechanisms described include a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, Black's chemical furnace, a sundial for the blind and astronomical clocks. Inventors, writers and innovators are also covered.

目次

  • APPROACHES TO INSTRUMENT HISTORY
  • Some uses for catalogue s of old scientific instruments, J.L. Heilbron
  • Interpreting the history of scientific instruments, A.J. Turner
  • EARLY INSTRUMENTS
  • An unknown Latin version of an ancient Parapegma: The Weather-forecasting stars in the Iudicia of Pseudo-Ptolemy, Charles Burnett
  • Rewriting history through instruments: The secrets of a medieval astrolabe from Picardy, David A King
  • Astronomical paper instruments with moving parts, Owen Gingerich
  • INSTRUMENTS AND ART
  • Raphael's Astronomia: between art and science, Kristen Lippincott
  • Scientific instruments: an Iconographic Note, C.R. Hill
  • INSTRUMENTS AND SCIENCE
  • Christina of Sweden and the sciences, Silvio A Bedini
  • Joseph Black and his chemical furnace, R.G.W. Anderson
  • Wheatstone's wave machine: A Physical model of light, Howard A.L. Dawes
  • More than 'a mere gazing place': the special loan exhibition and the science conferences of 1876, Frank Greenaway
  • Electricity from steam: Armstrong's hydroelectric machine in the 1840s, Willem Hackmann
  • The pendulum as the British. length standard: a 19th-century legal aberration, A.D.C. Simpson
  • BRITISH INSTRUMENTS 'A very artificial workman': the altitude sundials of Humphrey Cole, Deny s Vaughan
  • An equatorial ring dial by Ralph Greatorex, A.V. Simcock
  • Francis Hall's sundial for the blind, Jan De Graeve
  • Early navigational instruments in Scotland: Icons and survivals, A. Morrison-Low
  • Equipping the Radcliffe Observatory: Thomas Hornsby and his Instrument-Makers, J.A. Bennett, William Prout and the urinometer: Some interpretations, John Burnett
  • INSTRUMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS Brittle Glass: A fragile chapter in the history of experimental physics, Peter De Clerq
  • Frederik Kaiser and his 'steady boat compass with nightly illumination', Elly Dekker
  • Elisa van der Ven and the physical laboratory of the Teyler Foundation (Haarlem), 1878-1909, Marijn van Hoorn
  • OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
  • A tale of two instruments, Roderick and Marjorie Webster
  • Seventeeth-century Simple Microscopes, Brian Bracegirdle
  • The True name of Selligue, Margarida Archinard
  • Utrecht University and its microscopes, J.C. Deiman
  • THE INSTRUMENT-MAKING
  • The Spectaclemakers' Company and the origins of the optical Instrument-Making Trade in London, Gloria Clifton
  • A 1701 dictionary of mathematical instruments, D.J. Bryden
  • Illustrations of scientific instruments in the Gentleman's magazine, 1746-1796, Peter Delehar
  • Some notes on Benjamin Ayres, J.H. Leopold
  • Jeppe Smith (1759-1821): a Danish instrument-maker, Hemming Andersen
  • Scientific instruments and industrial innovation: the achievement of Jesse Ramsden, Allen Chapman: Thomas Cooke's order book: analysis of an optical business, 1856-1868, Anita McConnell
  • INVENTORIES AND COLLECTIONS
  • The Irish national inventory and one of its 'discoveries', Charles Mollan
  • The astronomical clocks of Andreas Hohwu: a checklist, Willem F.J. Morzer Bruyns
  • Index.

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